I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself: save that to him who accounteth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
Howbeit there is not in all men that knowledge: but some, being used until now to the idol, eat as {\i of} a thing sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
For if a man see thee who hast knowledge sitting at meat in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?
and he said unto them, Ye yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to join himself or come unto one of another nation; and {\i yet} unto me hath God showed that I should not call any man common or unclean: